The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1933, Page 3

Drop in Union Wage Rates for 1933 Shown 35 Per Cent Drop in Weekly Textile Wages; With Rising Living Costs, Shows NRA Wage | Codes as Starvation Trap | (Daily Worker, Washington Burean) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Decreases in union wage rates im 1083, as compared with 1932 were shown in 60 out of 69 separate time-work trades, the November Monthly Labor Review of the United States Burena of Labor Statistics announces. The report, just out, says of textile wages: “Barnings in the manufacture of | “sk and rayon goods averaged 26.9| newspaper from $1.231 to $1.149, or amts per hour and $11.85 per week| 6.7 per cent. in 193%, as compared with 40.6 cents! As far as today’s trend is con- per pound $18.47 per week in| cerned, it is significant that the etsy laundry code, now being discussed be- {fore N.R.A. Deputy Administrator A. D. Whiteside, proposes a lower wage Rigger Drop In Real Wages The drop per hour in textile wages amounts to 13.7 cents or 33.7 per cent, while the decrease in weekly dollar earnings totals $6.62 or 35.8 per cent. “The percentage loss of average earnings per week,” says the Labor Review, “was more than for average earnings per hour because of more lost time or more part-time work in 1933 than in 1931.” In the light of the present greatly increased cost of living, as compared with 1931, the worker can purchase much less food now than in 1931 for @ dollar—in other words, the drop in real wages is much more than the %6.62 decline in weekly wages. Covers 67 Cities In the section on “Union Scales of Wages of Labor in 1933, Average Wage Rates, by Trades,” the report States: “The 1933 « of wages and hours completed -by the Bure of scales union 1 of Labor in 67 im- the haut- and leundry . linemen, longshoremen, and the pring: and fob uch trades mized and aie in indicated ~pared with $1.111 ef 4.9 cents an Z@ the 69 sep- a d de- € paid an av- of $.951, as com- in 133, a drop of ing to the survey. se in the build- from $1.216 to for chauffeurs, nd drivers, from $,722 to .2 per cent; for the granite , tom $1203 to cent; for laundry ers, from $.487..to $.435, or 10.7 per cent; for linemen, from $1,091 to 41.034, or 5.2 per cent; for the long- shoremen, from $.868 to $.837, or 3.6 per cent; in the printing and pub- lshing group, the book and job from $1,084 to $1,006, or 5.6 per cent, the OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS Daily, Worker Cleveland, Ohio Dec. 2nd: House Party at home of Rose Of- ner, 3356 EB. 144th St. Arranged by ‘Unit 3-46, Good program. Dec. 8rd: Houst’ party at home of M. Mar- tueei; 15906 St. Clair Ave. at 8 p.m. Houss party held at Workers Home, 195 Coltman Rd, at 8 p.n Portchester Dec, 3rd: Movie showing of "26 Comuissars” and short Scotteboro. relense at Po- jonia Hall, 330 Willet Ave. at 8 p.m. Detroit. Dec. 2nd: John Reed Ciub, 108 West Hancock, ‘will hold International ptt oper Con- refreshments, playlet. Negro Quartet. Toledo, Ohio Dee. 2nd: Porty at the home of Tory Bell, 376 Pinewood, at 8 p.m. given by Good time assured. Beacon, N. Y. of labor, recently | y a half mil-| ‘bak- | ,|0f workers and liberals is being pre-| —___—-|men running from the scene of the CAMP NITGEDAIGET The Only Workers’ Camp Open All Year HOTEL WITH 60 ROOMS Steam Heat, Hot and Cold Ranning Water in Each Room. Wholesome Food, Sports, Cultural Activities i Best Place to Rest Price: $14.00 Per Week (including press tax) Private cars leave daily at 10:30 a.m. from the Cooperative Restaurant, 2700 Bronx Park East Estabrook 8-514L than the $.435 per hour given in the survey. For its workers, most of whom are colored, the laundry in-/| dustry proposes a “minimum” of 14 | cents an hour for the South. ‘Mass Fight Begun by LL. D. to Save ‘Negro from Chair' John Edwards, Framed by Police, Sentenced to Die Dee. 8 | ee, | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 30—A) mass fight is being organized] shout the state to save 18-year- |old John Lewis Edwards, Negro youth, framed on murder charges, from the jelectric chair on which he has been |sentenced to die Dec. 8. Meetings are being organized in |the principal cities, and a delegation pered by the International Labor | Defense to call on Governor Ehring- haus and demand that he stop this legal lynching. uccess of the Baltimore, Bir- mm and Norfolk anti-lynch |conference in focusing the attention lot the white and Negro workers of | the country on legal and gang lynch |tervor, has spurred the work of or-| lganizing the defense of Edwards, Edwards, charged with the mur- | der of a street-car motorman, was |indicted, tried and convicted in 72 |hours by an all-white jury. The I. L, D. through a mass fight won him |a sixty-day reprieve while papers for an appeal were being prepared. | Before the papers had been per- jfected, the state supreme court, con- spiring to defeat the defense, the in- complete appeal, confirmed the death sentence and set the date of execu-| tion only two weeks ahead. Steps are being taken to force re-opening of the case before the state supreme court by the I. L. D. There were no witnesses to the |actual murder with which Edwards | Was charged after the Southern Public Utilities Corporation offered $1,000 reward to police for a conviction, A white woman, however, told news~ Papermen that she saw two white murder, and that they told her not to go there. | Forty-five minutes later, another motorman, on a street-car at the other end of the town, shot and killed a Negro, named Winifred. Though police refused his relatives and friends permission to see the | body, it was discovered that his face | showed signs of a terrific beating. Edwards was arrested at the height of a reign of terror against Negroes by police, who arrested more than 100 in a frantic effort to find the most suitable frame-up victim so they could collect the reward. Lawyers appointed by the court to | “defend” Edwards, repotred to I. L. D, representatives investigating the case that all they knew about the case was what they read in the papers. They filed no appeal. One of them was a! Negro attorney. Lumber Union in Drive | to Organize Workers in the Idaho Region | wes | COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Nov. 30. —James national be held in Seattle. Phone: Beacon 731 1524 Prospect Avenue @ Register Now. Principles of Communism, Trade Unionism, History of the American Labor Movement, Economics, Historical Materialism, Marxism, Journa- lism, Sign Painting, English, Russian, Cartooning, Workers Health, Public Speaking, Etc. CLEVELAND WORKERS SCHOOL Classes Begin Dec. 4th 26 COURSES IN ___ New and Enlarged Quarters DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933 Page Three 10,000 PLEDGE TO DEFEND U.S. S. R. Youngstown Steel AT HUGE SOVIET RECOGNITION RALLY Convention Takes Minor Urges Greater | Defense of Workers’ | Fatherland | NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Over 10,000 | workers, representing hundreds of or- ganizations throughout the city, filled | the huge Bronx Coliseum last night | to celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union in forcing formal recognition from the United States. At the same time they pledged that they wou'd redouble their vigilance. against all attacks on the U.S. S. R. and spread among workers throughout the coun- try the realization of the need for an ever-strengthened defense of the Soviet Union against imperialist war. Soon after dusk the trains in street cars from the farthest corners | of the city began to pour a steady stream of workers into the streets at West Farms and 177th St., a stream which continued to swell the audience in the big hall even after the speeches had begun. They marched | along the aisles to the cheers of the | workers already seated, bearing the banners and placards of their organ- izations—block committees, commu- nity centers, union locals, workers’ | and youth and cultural clubs. Minor Hails Workers’ Victory Robert Minor, member of the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party, speaking from the platform|~ flanked on the speakers’ side by a large red flag, expressed the prevail- ing spirit of the meeting when he pointed out that Soviet recognition “can be construed only as a gain in the struggle between two societies, | two worlds—a gain for the Soviet) Union, the greatest stronghold of So- | ¢cialism and the revolutionary work- ers throughout the entire world.” He called attention to the threatening) alignment of forces aiming to plunge | the world into a second world im-| Perialist war, stressing that the spear- | head of this attack would be directed | against the U. 8. S. R. Citing the} frenzied armaments race now inj progress in Great Britain, Japan, the United States, France, Italy and Ger- | many, he stopped for a moment to Speak of the Hitler dictatorship in Germany, “which also soon will fall under the gathering revolutionary strength of the German working class!” Minor called upon the Socialist Party workers who had come to cele- brate the Soviet victory to join with | the Communist Party in defense of the Soviet Union’s peace policy, pointing out that the recognition sig- nified “not a single change im policy for the U. S. S. R. but a definite change in the policy of the United States. “The Red Army of Union,” Minor stated amid deafening applause, “stands today as the great- est bulwark war!” “Must Redouble Our Vigilance”. Molssaye J. Olgin, editor of The Fretheit, reviewed the peace policies of the U. S. S. R. “The deep joy that we feel in this victory of the workers’ fatherland,” Olgin said, “the Joy thet we express by our very at- tendance here tonight, must not blind us to the fact that now, more than ever, the necessity confronts ‘us of redoubling our vigilance against all attacks on the Soviet Union!” The ten thousand workers caught up the final words of Olgin's address as they thundered through the loud speaker into every corner of the hall: “Long Live the World October!” Cite National Minorities Both Louise Thompson, speaking in the name of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and S, Almazov, general secretary of ICOR, em- phasized the emergence of national! minorities in the Soviet Union, con-| trasting their freedom with the plight of the Negro people in the United|seeds of fascism, and the Monthly | James Starr, International States, the Jewish workers in Nazi| Germany and all other oppressed| declares, “N.R.A. wages have not|“He struck rightefrom th les, “The recognition of the Soviet Union,” said Louise Thompson, “is of Back to the Soviet Union After Victory || ‘Danger of Imperialist Attack Stressed in Speech by Olgin |on all Jewish friends of the Soviet Union to join the organization which | he represented, to spread the truth | about the U. S. 8. R. | All the speakers emphasized the achievement of the U. 8. S, R. and the danger of imperialist attack against it. “Between the clasped hands of the Soviet Union and the United States,” | said Dr. Harry F. Ward, author of the excellent book on Soviet life to- day, “In Place of Profit,” “there is a 5-M d by t z half-dug grave—the grave of Ameri-| The tremendous illusions held can capitalism.” the mill workers in the N.R.A Corliss Lamont called particular |Sions which our union did not st attention to the anti-Soviet activities ,Ciently help them to overcome in the days of the ope: Up Weirton Lessons Developing Strike Struggles, Work Among Negroes and Unemployed; Work in Amalgamated Are Chief Tasks By JOE DALLET (District Secretary, 5.M.W.LU.) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Noy. 30.—The Youngstown District Convention of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, which will be held here December 3, will be marked by the fact that, for the first time, the bulk of the delegates will be regularly elected by functioning locals of the 8.M.W.L.U, and by the sharpened situation facing the mill workers. ion and the strengthening of unemployed branches of the (2) the most energetic cam- inside the mills to develop de- the Soviet | in the world against | Maxim Lityineff, Peoples C U.S.S.R., photographed as he bade sail on his return voyage to the Soviet Union. tremendous significance to the 15,- 000,000 Negroes who constitute the pressed nation within the United fvates.” She pointed to the plight of the Jews in Czarist Russia and their position in the Soviet Union today, comparing the continual pog- roms against the Jews in the old Rus- | sia with the present lynch spirit be-| the Soviet Union amor ling fostered and increased against! workers of the United States, called/ workers, ‘ommmissar for Foreign Affairs oe of the farewell to the United States to set the Negro | by the rulers of] | America todz he stre 1 particu- jlarly the inciting remarks of Gov- ernor Rolph of California, who not ! only sanctioned but openly called for | the lynching of- struggling workers. | Almazov, dealing with the activities of the ICOR in winning support for the Jewish the American Federation of Labor, |Cynical smashing of the Ste Ralph M. Easley, Hamilton Fish, etc, | Weirton, Ambridge, Gre The success of the drive of the|@ianna Harbor strikes, by Friends of the Soviet Union for 100,-|0f the N.R.A. Board to 000 members was more than ever locked out and black urgent, he said, in order to counter- |in the Republic mill her act the vicious anti-Soviet activities |terrific drop in produ being spread through the United |Ployment) in the in States by these groups. Herbert Gold- Radicalization Marked frank, acting national secretary of| production in the indu: the F. S. U., announced the national | er today than it wis a convention of the F. 8. U., to be held,|there are few steel wor! probably in. Madison Square Garden, | pect very much che on Jan 26, 27 and 28, 1934. future. Mass unemploy’ At midnight, the 10,000 workers |tion while working part vyho had heard the program opened | the perspective for the | by the Freiheit Gesang Farein wit-| The resulting radical: | nessed the Duncan dancers in a group | tremendous possibilities fo: | of revolutionary dances before leav-' ing of our union | ing to undertake the work of spread- The rapid progress of our ing the movement for the defense of|in the mills of this district, which the U. S. 8. R. among their fellow- | resulted in the addition of close to |1,000 members in the two months up union to October 1, has been sharply checked & Un ited Textile Leaders | NEWS BRIEFS in South Aid Employers By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOC | A correspondent of the Labor Ri TION esearch Association in North Carolina | reports that certain cotton mill companies in that region are both {acitly | and openly aiding the United Textile Workers of Americz (A. F. of L.) in | organizing the workers. For instance, the superintendent of tie Loray Mill | timate son has a right to live.” of the Manville Jenckes Co. at Gastonia, where the famous Gastonia strike | | was fought in 1929, actually spoke at a recruiting meeting recently “urging all workers to join.” And in Valdes, N. C.. the superintendent of the Val- dese Mfg. Co. was reported to have urged the workers to get.in touch | With the U. T. W. headquarters. Although many southern workers have been thus induced to join the U.T.W. in recent months, the report states also that these same workers “are beginning to grumble about the | failure of union officials to do any- | thing-ebout grievances, suchas ddck- ing, cuts through style changes, the stretch-out and the like, and are |beginning to demand action.” | While economists, manufacturers, | and other former supporters of the |N.R.A. admit that the keystone of |the New Deal is failing, the leaders of the U.T-W. remain unperturbed iu | their enthusiasm for the Roosevelt |program. Speaking in Baltimore recently, Francis J. Gorman, Inter- |national First Vice-President, stated |“I want to announce both publicly |and privately that we are well on the way to recovery. There is absolutely no doubt as to the success of the | program so far, and I am confident |of its results in the future.” “I con- sider the cotton code the greatest ac- SCD ees Worker: “The National Recovery Act will not fail, and when the two years jallotted to it by Congress have passed, a newer, stronger and more perfe | NRA. will come forth.” from Greenville, 8. C., October 28, stated that John Pell, U.T.W. south- ern organizer, “said operatives at [several mills had wanted to strike,| but that labor leaders had managed -'to-keep~ them at work, and hoped no more strikes” woiil@ -be necessary.” | “But I wouldn't be surprised if we do | have more strikes,” he warned. In attempting to organize workers of the Huntingdon Specialty C Huntingdon, Pas~subsidiary of the L. committee inserted ment in a lecalenewspaper, intro- |ducing Mr. William F, Kelly, Inter- | national Second Vice-President of the | U-T.W., as a member of the commit- j tee in the making up of the silk |code.” It declares that “we want this union to be so conservative that the |management will—jein with us in | making the Huntiigdon Specialty Co. the best in the state.” Commenting om the speech og Gen- A report to the Daily News Record | Susquehanna Silk MilJs, the A. F. of | an advertise-| |date our gains and energy ly - tend them; (2) the reaction to the mistakes of the second Repub! seco pers strike and the blacklis Briton Held for Blackmailing the galvanizing eet same company; (3) the fail the King | velop a mass struggle LONDON, Noy. 29,—Clarence Had- | offs, for relief, etc. don, engineer, was arrested and ac-| The convention ‘eused of attempted extortion and/ more than m: blackmailing the King. Haddon, who| however. It {claims he is the illegitimate son of| workable plan for overcoming the! the Duke of Clarence, says he meant | The foundations of thi no harm, and that “even an illegi-!(1) a mass campaign the unemployed and part-time mill workers, accompanied mass 1 cruitment of these workers into tl will he Lindberghs Will Fly to African | Coast CAPE VERDE ISLANDS, Nov. » Detroit Youth in have jby (1) failure to sufficiently consoli- | Ur to adopt a/m . |is net our of’ jingoist groups in the United |e” States, mentioning specifically. the |N-R.A—have been sha y partmental iggles on even the American Alliance, the leadership of | Wage-cutting N.R.A. steel cod¢ smallest issues, using them to build the union in the particular depart- ments, to establish the unity in action of the S.M.W.I.U., AA. and unor- ganized workers, to build the con- 5 fidence of the workers in their fight- ing power and their ability to .win concessions from the steel trust, and to spread these struggles from de- partment to department. Struggles Developed Union ‘The convention will have to clearly rd the fact that, where our or- nization has conducted struggles ig too many mistakes) Where no struggles been conducted, where it failed to respond to the desires of the steel workers to fight, it has stagnated, and declined. A. burning problem facing the con- vention will be the complete failure to have done any real work, and ac- compilish any results, among the Me- The results of this fail- ve been to endanger whole Jocals of cur union and to greatly aid the trust in its fight against us. The delegation from Steubenville and Weirton will bring to the con- vention serious questions as to just what their line shall be now. T must be flexible. In ents where the A. A. js they must be INSIDE the A. A. A. lodges exist, they le. At the same time lt to prevent the whole- sale exodus from the A. A. which may well come following the December. 11 elections decreed by the Nation2l La- bor Board. If there IS such an exodus, we must be with it, we must try to di> rect it. For the workers to leave without joining the S. M. —The Lindberghs will not land at| AE is no gain for them. It is Dakar, Senegal, due to a yellow fever) no gain for our union. And, even scare,’ They will go directly to Brit- M Meet Dee 4 if great numbers leave the A. A., We jish West Africa, it was announced | ass 9 ie cannot desert it entire! | today. ase of it must be continued | Ey rer amaree ne | DETROIT, Mich—With the central |“Waxey” Gordon to Claim He | gemand of cash relief at the rate of Was “Underling” {$3.50 a week, the Unemployed Youth NEW YORK, Noy, 29. — “Waxey” | Council AQ d. ‘Young . Commmunist Gordon, beer racketeer, charged with income tax evasion on $2,000,000, will testify that he was employed by two slain gangsters as a “contact” man, jon a low weekly salary basis. | City Hall at 2 p.m. on December 4. | According to a joint statement of the |two organizations, the city admi- |nistration and Common Council must be compelled to recognize the miser- able conditions of the youth | Eight of the 32 youth arrested for |demanding relief on Nov. 13 were Slain Gangster Found in Ditch DETROIT, Noy. 30,—A mutilated |body found in a ditch was identified as Verne C. Miller, notorious Chicago | gangster, palice declared here today. Miller was involved in the Urchel | whether they were insane. The others " | were released. In the judge's opinion, lane tees eee representing the boss class, anyone { i i |who fights for relief must be crazy. Kresel Freed on Bail The militant boys, however, were NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Isidore J.| found to be perfectly normal by the Kresel, Bank of United States of-|examining physician. They were ficial, who was convicted of misap-|giyen suspended sentences. | Plication of funds on Noy. 15, was| Increasing radicalization of the | League here, are calling all youth to a city-wide demonstration before the} |sent to a psychopathic clinic to see| of Warren (where we allowed all the militants to leave the A. A. and d on no work among the more conservative workers remaining in- side), must be remembered. All our work in Steuvenbille and Weirton must be directed towards es- tablishing the fighting unity of ajl the workers there, through patient, detailed explanation of the lessons of the last strike, the difference be> \tween the policies in that strike of the A. A. and the 8. M. W. I. U.,.and especially to prevent large-scale de- moralization amonk the workers. Oct. 1933 was the FIRST battle in the | Weirton Steel Corp. mills. We must | begin to orientate the workers towards the NEXT battles and take the steps |necessary to insure that the next fight | will be won | A new district executive committee will be elected, more authoritative jthan the old one because it will rep- complishment of the United States | eral Johnson before-the recent A. F. in a generation.” (Daily News Record, | of L. convention,<in~which he de- November 1, 1933). clared that a strike is “economic And while some A. F. of L. lea sabotage” and that“‘you (A. F. of L. are beginning to see in N.R.A. the)leaders) cannot tolerate the | freed today on $10,000 bail. The Su-|youth is taking place among the|resent real organization in the mills. |preme Court stated there was a | thousands that are unemployed. Only| Tightening up of apparatus, the reesonable doubt as to his guilt. 400-500 actually are given any re-| proper meeting of the “red scare,” |ief, nothing whatever is done for the| by explaining the legal role of the | girls. Negro youth are viciously dis-|Communist Party in the workers’ Torgler’s Secretary Speaks Survey of Business of the A. F. of L. |brought higher living retal observed, shoulder. | Treasurer of the U;T. standards to|It was very fair“and his ideas are) Sunday strike,” | criminated against. The demands of the youth include, besides cash relief, winter clothing, free rent, lunches, no discrimination Anna Torgler, Gern Schultz, former secretar: now facing trial in Leipsig, ny, will speak in Elizabeth, on evening, Dec. 3rd, at 7:30 struggles, serious beginnings of youth work, the organization of women’s auxiliaries as a task of first-rate im- | portance—all of these questions must the average worker, President Mc-| very adaptable to the textile trades,” p.m., at Eagles Hall, 1108 Elizabeth and establishment of Youth Relief|be discussed and a clear line form~ Mahon biandly writes in the Textile Militancy Brought Wag Voted Against Sell Out Proposed by A. F. of L. Leaders; “Unofficially” Pickcted; Proposed to Spread Strike By BILL GEBERT CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 30.—The com- bined forces of the government, N.R.A., Chicago Federation of Labor and officials of the Livestock Han- diers’ Union, Local 517 (A. F. of L.) succeeded temporarily to drive 1,000 striking livestock handlers back to work after a three-day strike. But! the struggle is not over. It rather signifies the beginning of the struggles that the stockyard workers are taking up against starvation wages and speed-up. This strike came after the strike strugles in Pittsburgh, Pa., South St. Paul, Austin, Minnesota and Los Au- geles, and after the national con- ference of delegates of the Packing- house Workers Industrial Union, which was held two weeks ago in the city of Chicago. The strike of the Livestock Handlers is one of a num- ber of strikes recently broke out in the Chicago packing houses which further indicate the growing mili- tancy and resistance on the part of the workers to their worsening con- ditions under the blanket code of the N.R.A., which the packers signed. ‘The first series of strikes was the Oppenheimer Casing Co., which was @ spontaneous strike of 50 Negro and white workers a few months ago and the strikers accepted the Packing House Workers’ Industrial Union. ‘The strike was broken by the buro- crats of the A. F. of L. who succeeded dividing the Negro and white workers by arrest and terror against union orgenizers, thereby, dofeating the strike. Cause of Livestock Strike But of all the strikes in the city of Chicago, the strike of the Livestock Handlers asumes the greatest signi- ficance and importance. These work- ers are organized in Local 517 of the Livestock Handlers Union, which is part of the Amalgamated Meat Cut- ters and Butchers of North America, affiliated to the A. F. of L, The Livestock Handlers are work- ing under starvation wages, receiving an average of $12 a week. A num- ber of times they are called to work |at 3 or so in the morning, get three hours’ work and sent home, The workers went on strike demanding the 1929 wage-scale and 40 hours per week guaranteed work—that is an increase in wages of 50 per cent over the present scale. They are now re- ceiving between 35¢ and 75c an hour and they are demanding from 60c to 98c an hour. Officials Discourage Mass Picketing On Sunday night, November 26th, the strike was declared, This sirike was 100 per cent salid. Not a single worker, member of the union or not (overwhelming majority of the work- ers are members of the union) struck. The strike was so complete that on Tuesday morning, November 28th, the U. S, Department of Agriculture, is- sued a statement, declaring. “Local situation in complete con- trol of strikers, Strikebreakers un- loading of packer-direct hogs were intimidated and quit work, leaving liberal portion of packer-direct receipts today in cars, Tieup now is complete.” This characterization of the situa- (Our italics—L.RAd | to quit the job.~ was done be- cause of the militai on the part of the number of “strikers who disre- | garded the unionrburocrats, who were | against mass picketing and proposed only “sandwich picketing” of two | persons around the gate. This was the strikers were-active around the gates. The officials further agreed to permit other employes to handle the stock. They signed a truce, permit- ting the company to handle the iive- stock, providing that no outside help will be hired. They permitted the unloading of two million dollars worth of stock that was shipped here for the international livestock show which is to open in Chicago soon. Demands Issued by Industrial Union | The Packing House Workers Indus- | trial Union immediately issued a leaf- let to the strikers and workers in the yard, calling upon the workers in the stockyards to spread the strike, to organize themselves; formulate de- mands, preparing to broaden the present strike. To the strikers, the Packing House Workers Industrial Union offered a united front to broaden the strike; “The united froné offer was rejected by the burocrats of the A, F. of L. union, In the leaflet issued to the sthikérs, the Packing House Workers Tndustrial Union, is- sued the following propose’ to carry on the strike: “1, Election of, 2 strike committee, “2. Mass picketing. “3, Spreading. the strike to all stockyard workers. | “4. Unity in action of all stockyard workers’ organizations. “5. No settlement of strike with- ont vote of all strikers.” Effect of United Front Proposals The slogan of ‘spreading the strike created quite a sentiment among the workers, The bosses and foremen in the yards were yery much excited rani and file Increase to Chi | the official picketing, but unofficially, | Aye. Stations in all parts of the city, | ulated. Stockyard Strikers | Chicago Federation of Labor and of- ficials of the Union Stockyards and Transit Company were busy to bring | the strike to an end. Secret negotia- (tions were carried on without the knowledge of the strikers. They| wanted to conclude the strike for fear of spreading the strike and if the Livestock Handlers would remain on strike, it would cripple further pro- duction, Strikebreaking Terms Rejected In the late afternoon of Tuesday, November 28th, the Chicago Labor Board of the N.R.A., headed by "lib- eral” Prof. Hutchins, of the Chicago University, and conspiring of such burocrats as John Fitzpatrick, Presi- | dent of the Chicago Federation of Labor, Sam Levine, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union (Levine al- ways claims that he is a “Socialist”) formulated 5 demands around wrich | the workers were to return to work. ‘The demands included: | 1, That all strikers to be reem- | ployed without discrimination. 2. That the Union Stockyards and | Transit Co, will carry on negotiations with the representative of the union. 3. That in case both sides will dis- ‘Now Preparing for Bigger Struggles; Indus- | trial Union Leaflet Giving Rank and File | Demands Had Big Effect bosses and burocrats of the A. F. of |sify its organizational drive, L., so much so, that in a hurry they tablish itself as a powerful factor arranged another conference for |the stockyards to build its locals Tuesday midnight, and in addition to the members of the union to be the five points they included a sixth, | strumental in setting up which providea for 10 per cent in-| in the departments, uniting workers crease in wages. Only when ¢his of different unions and organise. was done were they able to get the Tinjdlity be 26° meee to “vols “to| 22, Médion to, the BW ae *© there are A. F. of L., Stockyards return to work. When final vote was!}.- Council, and some taken after midnight only 300 strikers tions None of these unions teday were in the hall. On Wednesday) a>. 4 determining factor among the morning the strikers returned to| workers, The overwhelmingly major- ‘work. lity of the workers are un ‘This brief sketch of the events show|ganized. These workers can be ore clearly that the workers are ready to|ganized and a powerful united front carry on a strike struggle and carry it) from below can be built on to a successful conclusion. The} of setting up committees granting of the 10 per cent increase| partments, working out in wages did not satisfy the strikers. | cementing the unity of the They also know that arbitration will| white workers and special bring no satisfactory results to them. worked out for the Negro, We can look toward further struc; women workers. Around In this strike, the role of the N.R.A.|Packing Workers Industrial agree, the whole matter to be referred| and particularly, the “liberal” Pro-|be organized. The P. H. |to the “Chicago Regional Labor | fessor Hutchins and such experienced | showed in this strike that Board for mediation.” And if. that; labor fakers like John Fitzpatrick and/pable to influence workers failed, 4. Then “An arbitration be;Sam Levine were exposed as arch/| members of the A. F. of L. Its .” ‘The objective for all this|>nemies of the workers. These men | activity of its members among were united together with the bosses / strikers were primarily responsible ; lto drive the workers back on the job/getting the 10 per cent increase. | tonight.” without any concession whatever. It| must establish very close unity of the | When these proposals of the N.R.A.| was only the fear of the spreading of member of the Livestock were submitted to the strikers, the|the strike, oniy the militancy of the} Union with the P. H. W. 1. U. |overwhelming majority of them re- | :vorlers thst forced them to agree to| workers do feel the need of | fected and declared that they will re-)a ten per cent increase. action. It is our. task, thi | main on strike, will immediately | ) Work, to establish the fighting ‘spread the strike to the rest of the Bigger Struggles Coming of the stockyard workers in ‘kyards workers. organized and to increase wages, against speed. ganized. The fear of spreading| 10 the stockyards of Chicago nearly | discrimination, ete. and in strike was so big that Jerry| 40,000 workers are on the payroll, struggle to defeat burocrats of the Secretary of Local 517 of the| Working part time. The average wage A. F. of L. and Stockyards Labor stated |18 between $10 and-$12 a week. It is| Council. ‘ : young | much lower for the women, young and The work of the P. H. W.LU. By | Hi ee 338 | “The men are to retum to work g the | Cronin, Livetsock Handlers Union that about 7.500 more men were going At present, there are two small strikes going on in the Illinois Pack- Negro workers. There is discrimin tion by the U. S. Depariment of} about the spreading of the strike and| to strike.” However, he underestim- EXCEPTIONAL PROGRAM — SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3rd, at 8 P.M. || ing Co. and Northwestern Packing AT 1524 PROSPECT AVENUE ADMISSION 26c Agriculture is correct. It was a com- Co. of workers organized in the unions of the A. F. of L. These} strikes involve about 250 workers. plete tie-up in handling the livestock inside the yards. Strikebreakers who were recruited, about 200, were forced | undertook a counter campaign against ft. > In the meantime; the whole mach- ated. More than that would go on tion against the Negro and young strike. | workers and abuse on the women. The defeat of the proposal of the) The task of the Packing Mouse recelye the support of all the class organizations in the \Chicago. This is the most issk confronting the Chicage inery of the government, the N.R.A.,|N.R.A. created a fear among the| Workers Industrial Union is to inten-' class.